[Zenobia]

I have changed out the entire faucet in the kitchen sink. All I have is one more connection to make. It is the flexable tubing to the valve under the sink and guess what! The valve that is there was bought at the special plumbers store that plumbers buy from which provides fittings and valves that ARE NOT available at any place that a do-it-yourselfer can go to. The stupid thing's size no longer fits ANY coupling/bolt thingy that is known to man. It was bought from satan by a plumber who sold his soul to the devil hoping that he would be able to keep us peons from ever doing a plumbing job EVER. ARGH! Now I am going to go to the hardware store and get a new valve which is what I was going to do in the first place but the evil hardware man said that the thing I just bought would most definately work. HA! I was fooled. I should know better. They are all in collusion. But I am now going to go to the hardware store and find the valve and I am going finish the blasted job despite them and their evil ways. I am just afraid that I am not going to be able to get the old valve off the steel pipe, which will suck because I have to turn off the water to the whole house to do it and I don't really want to be stuck without water until my hubby can get his brawny body home from work and do it for me at 11:00 at night. Cross your fingers for me.
Carrie

<font color=green>But the implicit and usually unconscious bargain we make with ourselves is that, yes, we want to be healed, we want to be made whole, we're willing to go some distance, but we're not willing to question the fundamental assumptions upon which our way of life has been built, both personally and societally.--Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft

[dexter]

you go! don't take it!

it is so funny because of the ads here come up to relevant entries, so viewing your post right below are ads for "ductile iron pipe fittings," "hose and fittings," "industrial pipe products," and "weld fittings and flanges."

It is as if the web is also in collusion with the plumbers so as to be able to "taunt you a second time."

it's all an offshoot of the metric/english conspiracy to make us buy two sets of tools.

good luck and let us know how you make out! if you get this working you are going to feel so good about yourself (and you should feel good anyway just for tackling it)

-- The world is what we make of it --
-- Dave
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[Rapunzel]

You go, girl!

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[SeptemberMorn]

Aw, Carrie! But you have such a funny way of complaining.

I'm with Dave and Ozzie. I can't imagine taking on a job like that! You should be proud of yourself just for even thinking about doing it! You can color me impressed! Let us know how it turns out, ok?


<font color=blue>"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt" --Shakespeare</font color=blue>

[PlanningtoLive]

So proud of you, in case you hadn't noticed. Would never have been me.........lol.

[Zenobia]

Thanks everyone. Now get this. Did you know that there is a 1/2" fitting and there is a 1/2" compressed fitting? And it takes 4 trips to the hardware store to get the truth about the matter? Interesting. My little valve happened to need the 1/2" compressed fitting. Funny thing is that it comes attached to the 20' flexable tubbing but not the 30" or the 10". And the 10" tubing did not come with 1/2 in fittings on both ends. Nor is there a nifty little metal object that will bring you down from 1/2 in to 1/2 in compressed. Now I could have wandered all around Tacoma searching through all the hardware stores for a piece that would connect the stupid thing in a reasonable manner but I opted to go with patching two 20' inches of flexable tubing together with a coupling that adds about another 2 inches to the tube which means that I now have a tube that is 42 inches long that needs to connect to pipes that are only 20 1/4 inches apart. Slightly amusing if I may say so. But I now have a new working water source that is not leaking and flooding my kitchen. I can now wash the dishes or a chicken without getting on my hands and knees and crawling in a cupboard to turn the water on...or use the bathtub. Anyway, it is done and it works and I snuck past the plumbing society. Woo Hoo.
Carrie

PS I apologize to any plumbers who may be members of this board. I am sure that if you have found us and come here regularly you must be a good person and therefore have not sold certain spiritual parts to certain unmentionable beings and probably most definately do not hang out with those who have. I am sorry if you felt that I have slighted you in any way by my stereotyping all plumbers as pawns of the aforementioned being...

Did you know my house could have blown up after a plumber turned the release valve on my oil tank and left my home with oil dripping from the tank and seeping underneath my furnace. That was scary. Unfortunately I couldn't do anything about it at the time because I was in a very bad mental place to begin with. Sigh. No, I do not like plumbers. I will do everything in my power to take care of the plumbing myself, thank you very much. If it wasn't for all the strange fitting sizes (which of course are totally unnecessary) plumbing would actually be rather easy (making plumbers unnecessary.)

<font color=green>But the implicit and usually unconscious bargain we make with ourselves is that, yes, we want to be healed, we want to be made whole, we're willing to go some distance, but we're not willing to question the fundamental assumptions upon which our way of life has been built, both personally and societally.--Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft

[dexter]

take the extra 20 some inches of tubing and knot it up under the sink

then you'll have the world's first crazy straw sink! you'll be able to get your kids to do the dishes because it is so much fun! silly! crazy! fun!

-- The world is what we make of it --
-- Dave
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